The Dismemberment Plan (music group)

While making the War on Drugs' third studio album, "Lost in the Dream" (Jajaguwar), Adam Granduciel was having one of those what-does-it-all-mean? moments.

"When I started making this record, I was in a place where I'm in my 30s, traveling around the world playing music, and thinking about what are people connecting to?" he says. "Music was and is such a huge part of my life, but at the time I felt like I wasn't putting stuff out there that was 100 percent me. I wanted to connect on a bigger level with people."

Granduciel was going through a break-up and threw himself into recording with a single-minded intensity. He had come off more than a...

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